Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Simmons became director of TDC in 1930 with a reputation of being a hard but completely honest law enforcement officer . |
| 2 | Thus , tired of being the poor and comparatively impotent relation , General Synod is now chafing at the bit . |
| 3 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 4 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 5 | They are far from being the same or even similar , and you can check this by comparing the analysis on the packets . |
| 6 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 7 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 8 | In the case of pain , on the other hand , it seems to us to be a substantive and yet not to be the name of a material object . |
| 9 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 10 | It might be felt that this is not perhaps the set of circumstances in which ignoring ail Continental experience would seem to be a logical and easily justified decision . |
| 11 | Men confused by some of the changes in women 's own expectations of marriage have found it hard to adjust to a wife who now expects her husband to be a thoughtful and technically competent lover , a housefather and a co-counsellor . |
| 12 | As with Ravel , the deception was usually in favour of the consumer , because it often turned out to be a famous and justly well-known artist using a different name for contractual reasons . |
| 13 | Of the 243 companies interviewed , 56 per cent considered the disruption of children 's schooling to be a very or fairly serious problem for transferred staff . |
| 14 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 15 | The possession attack seems on the whole to be a milder and less radically challenging assault than that conveyed by charges of witchcraft or sorcery . |
| 16 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 17 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 18 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 19 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 20 | Within families the complexity and inter-relatedness of expectation and need can appear to be a perplexing and entirely confusing maze . |
| 21 | Democracy has to be a vital and constantly refreshing element in our socialism . |
| 22 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 23 | The solution has been found by submitting the agreement to English law , widely thought to be the fairest and most flexible , and therefore used for many international transactions . |
| 24 | I find tea to be the best and most satisfying bush drink that can be taken … ’ |
| 25 | However , these state lawyers tend in many cases to be the newest and very often amongst the least experienced in the profession . |
| 26 | THE TWENTY-NINTH annual Belfast Festival which runs from November 4th to 23rd this year promises to be the biggest and most wide-ranging event to date . |
| 27 | Since the 1920s concern has been expressed over the fact that it tends to be the younger and better qualified people who are 51 leaving the less dynamic North , thus undermining the ability of the latter to rejuvenate itself . |
| 28 | The fourth side of the pond proved to be the busiest and also the best in terms of good finds . |
| 29 | In fact , our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world . |
| 30 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |